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The Career Development Center (CDC) is the primary provider of undergraduate
career services at Baruch College. Baruch undergraduates are encouraged to use
the Center from the time they enter as freshmen through their graduation.
Services to students include individual and group career counseling; vocational
testing; mock interview training; resume reviews; career-related workshops;
sponsorship of Fall and Spring Career Days and Spring Internship Fair; on-campus
recruiting; and part-time and full-time job and internship position postings. As
alumni, they may return for selected services.
The CDC also provides comprehensive recruitment services to employers, including
coordinating on-campus and off-campus recruiting; hosting Career Days and an
Internship Fair; helping arrange employer-conducted student-oriented Information
Sessions; listing and posting jobs; and fostering relationship building between
the College and employers .
The Career Development Center provides the following services and programs for
Baruch students:
Career Counseling and Vocational Testing
Resume Reviews
Mock Interviews
Peers for Careers
Career counseling provides students with assistance as they go through the
process of exploring, choosing, and entering a satisfying major and career.
Students may make an appointment to meet with a trained counselor for 30 - 60
minutes to discuss relevant topics, to take vocational tests, or to learn the
results of test. They can meet for one or several sessions depending on needs.
Finding a good fit with a major and career is a two part process requiring first
an in-depth self assessment and second gaining information about the world of
work. Professional career counselors with students to do a self assessment by
helping them to identify values, interests, skills, and personality type. During
this process, students have an opportunity to discuss their hopes and fears
about
current or future jobs and/or job searches.
Vocational testing can be a part of the career counseling process if the student
and the counselor decide that it will be helpful. Students may take a vocational
interest inventory such as the Self Directed Search designed to help identify
likes and dislikes with respect to majors and careers. In addition, counselors
have a variety of other tools to help clarify values, skills and personality
issues relevant to students' career development.
Researching companies and careers is the second part of the career
decision-making process. Counselors can direct students to resources to increase
their information about the world of work as they go about weighing various
career decisions.
Staff and peer counselors are available to review your resume. Prior to
participating in on-campus recruiting or embarking on a job search, you should
make an appointment to have your resume reviewed.
Resume reviews are recommended but NOT required.
Resume Reviews are available by appointment and on a walk-in basis. They are
usually 30-minute sessions, and students must come with a typed draft of their
resume. Business correspondence such as cover letters and thank you letters can
also be revised in one of these sessions.
CDC staff and peer counselors are available to conduct videotaped mock
interviews. Seeing yourself on tape provides you with the opportunity to see
yourself as others see you. In this way you can evaluate your interview
performance, focus on areas of strength and identify things you may want to
change. Like other skills, interviewing is a skill you can develop and improve
through practice. Do not make your first job interview your first interview.
In order to participate in a mock interview, you are required to:
Provide all requested information on the designated sign-up sheet when
scheduling a mock interview appointment.
Indicate the company and position for which you are interviewing.
Research the company to which you are applying prior to the mock interview
Wear business attire.
Bring a copy of your resume with the company??s name and position written on the
upper right-hand corner.
Bring a blank videotape to record your session.
Mock Interviews are by appointment only. Failure to show up for an appointment
may result in rescheduling delays.
Peers for Careers are trained undergraduate students who assist fellow students
with career exploration and job searching activities. Peers conduct resume
reviews, mock interviews and assist staff at the Career Development Center. At
times, Peers facilitate career-related workshops on topics ranging from Career
Exploration to Networking for Success. During special events such as Career Day
and Internship Fair, Peers also help with setting up and greeting employers as
they come in. Through their interactions with students, staff and recruiters,
Peers not only develop their communication skills but also become knowledgeable
about internship and job opportunities.
During the fall and spring approximately 300 companies send corporate recruiters
to interview students at Baruch. Prior to company visits, the CDC collects
student resumes and sends them to the company for their selection. Selected
students then sign up for convenient interview times and meet with recruiters on
campus. Some companies contact students directly to set up appointments and
interview candidates at their location.
All graduating students are encouraged to participate in the on-campus
recruiting program. The CDC works hard to attract high quality employers to our
campus and recruiters are eager to meet our well-trained Baruch students. In
order to participate in the on-campus recruiting program students must meet the
eligibility requirements AND attend a mandatory OCR workshop.
As of Fall 2001, the CDC started to use the eRecruiting interface from
experience.com to administer our on-campus recruiting program. Please click here
to learn more about how you can use eRecruiting system and how to log in.
Thousands of our most recent graduates are engaged in productive careers in New
York??s premier business establishments, such as MetLife, J. P. Morgan Chase,
Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, and Ernst & Young. Each of these firms and
dozens
of others have hundreds of our young alumni at work as assistant treasurers,
group vice presidents, financial analysts, database and Web administrators, and
marketing directors.
Members of the undergraduate class of 2000 report that they are earning between
$25,000 and $62,000. The full-time MBA graduates of the Class of 2000 report an
average starting total compensation of $73,579. And many of those that graduated
30 and 40 years ago are now the known and respected partners, managing partners,
and senior officers in their firms.
Additionally, our public administration graduates learn the budgeting and
management skills needed to succeed in government, the nonprofit sector, and
education, as well as private enterprise. And liberal arts graduates go on to
earn advanced degrees and assume leadership positions in New York??s cultural and
academic institutions.
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